Have you heard of Iron Cupcake? It’s a world-wide event that promotes baking and eating while raising funds for local causes. The Iron Cupcake Madison group has held 6 events to “riff on cupcakes, promote enjoyment of unusual flavors, and raise some money for the plethora of deserving non-profits.” Madison, being the crunchy granola kind of town that we are, has been lucky to have a gluten-free baker at most of those events – Nikki Burns from GoodBye Gluten. She’s not only been participating, she’s been winning for best taste! Congrats to Nikki.

Of course, since she’s gotten great feedback, I decided it was time for me to step up and join the fun. I know I’ve already mentioned that I’m not a huge cake fan. I’m even less of a fruity cake fan. And, this month’s theme was late summer fruit. Eep. Facing my demons, eh? It’s all about facing my demons. (Well, that and it made it ridiculously easy for me not to eat all these cupcakes I was making.)

Two test batches later, I’d come up with a recipe that was not only gluten-free, but also vegan. As one tester stated, “that’s the impossible, you know.” Muahaha. Not so impossible after all.

Wow! These look absolutely wonderful. I love your photograph showing ooh so many of the teeny tiny cupcakes. It’s rather like a ‘One Hundred and One Dalmations’ shot. :)
Love your inclusing of cranberries, just enough to convince me they aren’t entirely wicked.
Thank you for this recipe. I look forward to trying it.

I’m thinking these might be part of our Thanksgiving feast this year! I’m vegan, my son is gf, and one of the “extra kids” (the children of friends who spend holidays with us) is allergic to dairy and soy. I’m usually a non-planner for such things but I’m getting better and I really think this will make an appearance. Beautiful!!

Haha. It gets easier as you go. I’ve done all of the events (and one in Milwaukee- 500 cupcakes!) and each one I learn a new trick to pop out mass quantities of mini cupcakes. Hope the kiddo event went well. We decided a nap was in order and didn’t set an alarm. Oops.

Sadly, no one showed up for the kiddo event. Lots o’ work, little payoff. But, the kiddo had fun, which is what’s most important. And, yah, I’m sure there are lots of tricks. I’d so way rather do Iron cookie, though. Mmmm….cookies. :)